There is no
mill in the Greenís Mill community today.After operating for more than 100 years, little trace of the mill
remains.There is no marker to
denote the site, and the ravages of nature have reclaimed the land and the
stream where the mill and the dam once stood.The store which was operated across the road from the mill for more than
100 years is also gone.The Lanton
school building still remains (though extensively modified), but no school has
been in operation there since the spring of 1936.

The Bunch
family and the Sanders family who were so instrumental in building the community
in the 1800s have no descendants in the community today.

The
Greens who were prominent in the community in the late 1800s and early 1900s are
almost gone.Only two families
(Garland Glenn and Richard Green) in Greenís Mill trace their ancestry to
Cambridge Green.

Solomon
Bunch, James D. Sanders, and L. C. Green all rest in the Lanton/Bunch cemetery
overlooking the site of the mill, store, and church.

The
Lanton Church of Christ, organized by Lucratus Green and others in 1896, is
still active and strong.Perhaps we
could have guessed that the church would remain after all other entities in the
community had passed.

There are
many more houses in the vicinity of Greenís Mill today than when I was born
there in 1936.Many of the families
living in these new houses probably are unaware that the mill on Rutherford
Creek ever existed.

Though
the community I knew as a child is gone, my memories remain.The old mill building, though inoperative, was a mighty presence across
the road from the store during my childhood.The people who attended church at Lanton, and who gathered at the store
to play cards, play croquet, and watch television, were typical of the honest,
hard-working people who built our community and our nation.

References

1.Robbins, D. P.Century
Review of Maury County, Tennessee, 1807 Ė 1907.Originally Published 1905.Reprinted
with new material by Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, S.C., 1980
& 1997.Volume was reproduced
from an Original Edition located in the private library of Jill K. Garrett,
Columbia, Tennessee.